Eighth year of Chongzhen

Chapter 617 The King of Hell is good to see

"Qi Zou Your Majesty, I still have a question, and I need to ask Your Majesty to explain it!"

Just when Zhu Youjian was about to take advantage of the opportunity to bring up the next topic, Wen Tiren hesitated for a moment and then stood up and saluted.

"The Chief Assistant has something to say, but it's okay to say it!"

"Thank you my lord.

What the old minister wants to ask is, are there any specific rules for setting the age for officials to retire?

The minister thinks that in this matter, it is better for officials to distinguish between officials and miscellaneous servants.In particular, will many handymen enjoy the same treatment as officials?
Whether it is in the yamen of the Temple of the Ministry of the Capital, or in the local government at all levels, there are indeed a large number of officials, but the number of miscellaneous servants is far greater than that of officials.Because such people only respond to their bodies with strength, I think it is better not to let them enjoy retirement. "

Wen Tiren's question is very practical.

The total number of officials and book offices in all levels of yamen is very limited, because these people are all educated people, and there are very few scholars in Ming Dynasty, so Wen Tiren does not object to these people's enjoyment of retirement by referring to officials. treatment.

However, should those large numbers of handymen also have retirement?
These people are all illiterate people, they are engaged in manual labor in the yamen, and they don't belong to the class of scholars at all, so what Wen Tiren's words mean is that these people should not enjoy pension benefits.

"What the chief assistant mentioned was indeed neglected by me.

I really never considered such people.

As for the distinction between officials and officials, I have already considered it.

Let me first talk about the age of officials.

From the ninth-rank official to the seventh-rank official, [-] to [-] years of service is the limit.

From seventh grade to fifth grade is 60 years old.

From the fifth grade to the third grade is 65 years old.

From the third grade to the first grade is 70 years old.

The official retirement age is 50 years old.

What do you think? "

The so-called pension is nothing more than a different name for the pension of later generations. The term pension is mainly to reflect humanistic care.

In this era when people live in their 40s and the average life expectancy is only over 20 years old, according to the standards set by Zhu Youjian, whether they are serving or retiring, most people have no chance to get free money from the court for ten to twenty years.

Pensions are actually more like a psychological pacifier, which only shows to the greatest extent the imperial court's intention to reward individuals, so as to motivate the people who are serving the imperial court.

As for the amount of money to be spent on pensions, Zhu Youjian is not worried at all.

As long as the policy of gentry and gentry paying grain can be fully implemented, Taicang's income will experience explosive growth next year, and it will operate steadily on the basis of this amount in the future.

"As for the matter of the handyman mentioned by the Chief Assistant, the cabinet will go back to discuss a charter and submit it, and I will consider it accordingly.

However, what I want to say is that in the recognition of the ministers, although the handyman is a person of low status, such people face the low-level people all day long, and the power they exercise is also granted by the government. Words and deeds represent the face of the government.

Therefore, the ministers must carefully consider when formulating relevant strategies, and do not make it difficult to implement the imperial court's policies due to contempt. "

Seeing that all the ministers agreed with the age of becoming an official, Zhu Youjian pondered for a while, and then emphasized the importance of the handyman issue. Although all the ministers nodded in agreement, they still felt a little disapproving.

Although the emperor's words were reasonable, they were actually too careful.

It is true that the handymen need to face Li Shu directly. The emperor is afraid that they will use the banner of the government to do evil under the banner of the government and harm the people because of their resentment, which will tarnish the reputation of the court.

However, the emperor may not have thought that these handymen were firmly controlled by the lower-level officials.

These officials who are proficient in various local government affairs are not good at it. Nothing these handymen do can be hidden from those skilled officials. No day.

Now that salaries have increased significantly again and pensions are available, most of the officials will naturally understand who is their food and clothing parent, and they will also distinguish between the interests in doing things. Therefore, the emperor's worries are fundamental. no need.

"Invitation to the Holy Majesty, I still have something to say about the policy of the gentry to pay the food as a whole."

Seeing that the above questions came to an end, Chen Qiyu got up and saluted.

"Chen Qing can speak out if he has something to say!"

"The minister thought of a question from what His Majesty the Caicai said about the handyman.

At present, among the local governments at all levels in the south of the Yangtze River, a considerable number of officials and officials are either friends with the local gentry, and they communicate with each other on weekdays. The interests of the two have become one. proof.

On the other hand, what about those officials?

Either many officials come from wealthy gentry families, or they are simply wealthy people. Once this policy is forced, what will the result be? "

After Chen Qiyu expressed his doubts, all the officials looked thoughtful, and Zhu Youjian fell into silence.

Chen Qiyu's words pointed to the crux of this strategy, and after thinking about it, he still took it for granted.

For thousands of years, no matter how the dynasties changed, in many places, some families of subordinate officials, which were equivalent to hereditary, remained standing.

It doesn’t matter whether you are Li Tang or Zhao Song, or the current Zhu Ming Dynasty, as long as you establish a court and set up a government, you have to employ people to work for you. What do you do when you are on errands?
And as long as the government employs people, it must use local people who are familiar with the world. The subordinates who were still working for the Mongolian and Yuan courts immediately changed and changed their families to become Zhu Ming's people.

The power of these subordinate families in the local area is intertwined, and they depend on each other and hinder each other. Once the local officials annoy them, your government orders will soon be unable to leave the gate of the office. It cannot be implemented under the household, so that the common people cannot enjoy the sunshine and rain of the imperial court.

What's more, this group of people will cleverly set up their names, under the banner of the government, and use various means to exploit and abuse the people, which will bring extremely bad influence.

As the saying goes: The king of hell is easy to see, but the little devil is hard to deal with.

If there are no corresponding measures to change this phenomenon, the strategy of gentry and gentry receiving food as a whole will encounter layers of resistance in the process of implementation, and even end without a problem in some areas.

If this is the case, the prestige of the emperor and the imperial court will be greatly reduced. In the future, as long as the imperial court issues any policies, as long as the interests of these people are endangered, they will follow the same prescription and follow the same pattern, so as to let the imperial court once again Policy aborted.

How can this be good?
　Thanks to the cake robber for the reward.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)